Wednesday, June 29, 2011

King Corn

The Sweet Corn will be late in Iowa this year because of the lack of sunshine we've had this Summer...so it will be more like it used to be. But the most shocking aspect of the State's main crop (and in many ways its curse and blessing) is this:

Sweet corn typically amounts to fewer than 6,000 of the state's 13.5 million acres devoted to corn production. The rest of the corn is used for animal feed, ethanol and sweeteners.